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What's she like, Gav? Pretty girl, ain't she? Has she any sense?" "Much as you have," growled Blake. "Oh, don't get nasty. Only I thought you were a bit shook on the governess there what about that darnce at the Show ball, eh? I say, you couldn't lend us a tenner till Saturday?"
"Yairs," said young Mick, with withering emphasis. "Darnce! He can't darnce. I'll run, darnce, jump, or fight any man in the district for two quid." Before the challenge could be accepted there was an unexpected interruption. Hugh had put the big trotting mare in the light trap for Miss Harriott and Mary to drive home.
So it happened that after Jerry the Swell, the recognised champion of the Doyles, had gone off with an extremely self-satisfied air, some adherents of young Red Mick, the opposition champion, took occasion to criticise Jerry's performance. "Darnce!" they said. "Jerry the Swell, darnce! Why, we've got an old poley cow would darnce him blind! Haven't we, Mick?"
I'd agreed to go and play at a darnce at Old Pipeclay School-house all night that very night and leave her at home because she hadn't asked to come; and it never struck me to ask her at home by herself in that hole for twenty-five bob. And I only stopped at home because I'd got the hump, and knew they'd want me bad at the school."
Well, one wet season half a dozen of us chaps was camped there for a fortnight, because the roads was too boggy to travel, an' one night they got up a darnce at Peter Anderson's shanty acrost the ridges, an' a lot of gals an' fellers turned up from all round about in spite of the pourin' rain.
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